[quote="jdreyer"Mar 25, 2018, 23:16"22024uestion for folks. I have a wifi router, and control my daughter's laptop connectivity by setting the MAC address to a specific schedule, no wifi after 10PM, for example. However, the wifi was weak in part of the house so I set up a repeater.

Suddenly I noticed her laptop not adhering to the schedule, and discovered that the repeater reports an entirely different MAC address for the laptop. Why is that? russians.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 25, 2018, 13:54:I've known about this nonsense for a few years. Fantastic example of a corporation being a bag full of dicks. The guy should get 10s of millions in damages from Nissan for it. And the executives who authorized the actions should go to jail. Unfortunately, it is doubtful either will happen...

Shouldn't they countersue?

Maybe Beam will stop by and give us some analysis.

of course he could countersue, but that's guaranteed another several years and bags of money down the drain on what i'd guess is maybe a 60% chance of winning in the end. it's not just that they wasted his time and money, to prove frivolous lawsuit he would have to prove they intended to waste his time and money knowing they had little chance of winning. based one what he'd gone through i could understand why the idea of several more yaers of litigation wouldn't be the most appetizing thing to him.

upon reading about frivolous litigation on wiki, he might have a stronger case than i first guessed, but it would still be painful for him. apparently he should've asked for compensatory damages at the end of the case. i don't know how it affect his future standing on the matter since he didn't.

1badmf wrote on Mar 22, 2018, 16:55:anyone watched krypton premiere last night? for those not in the know, it's a prequel to superman on the syfy channel, set in his grandfather's time. really high production values; promising so far. kinda made for millennials with the young main actors, but the cast is more diverse than just a bunch of dumb kids. and growth has to start somewhere right? the subject matter is more serious than dumb kid angst.

You realize the oldest Millenials are closing in on 40, right? And the youngest, depending on how it's placed, are somewhere between 18 and 25.

i don't count myself among their number; i think most of us here don't either. being a 90s teen i feel like my values are slightly askew from dank memes and mirror selfies. i work with 20somethings at work and they are definitely, lets say, different from the generation i grew up with. when you grew up worshipping grunge rock you generally aren't so obsessed with appearances.

Sure we were. What was Nirvana if not appearances? All of Seattle grunge.

are you serious? grunge was the least about appearances. i really don't wanna get into the musical impact of grunge, but it was so much more than looking like you roll around in a dumpster after waking up. if our generation were truly obsessed with appearance like millennials seem to be, i think we would've latched on to something more appealing than dreds and ratty clothes.

1badmf wrote on Mar 22, 2018, 16:55:anyone watched krypton premiere last night? for those not in the know, it's a prequel to superman on the syfy channel, set in his grandfather's time. really high production values; promising so far. kinda made for millennials with the young main actors, but the cast is more diverse than just a bunch of dumb kids. and growth has to start somewhere right? the subject matter is more serious than dumb kid angst.

You realize the oldest Millenials are closing in on 40, right? And the youngest, depending on how it's placed, are somewhere between 18 and 25.

i don't count myself among their number; i think most of us here don't either. being a 90s teen i feel like my values are slightly askew from dank memes and mirror selfies. i work with 20somethings at work and they are definitely, lets say, different from the generation i grew up with. when you grew up worshipping grunge rock you generally aren't so obsessed with appearances.

from what i've read the car had lidar AND radar. just inconceivable how it didn't see her. and yeah, her clothing color should've had nothing to do with it.

she may have been at fault, but that doesn't mean you can just run someone over. in a civilized society we should try to give each other the benefit of the doubt, not just apply punishment to the fullest extent possible.

anyone watched krypton premiere last night? for those not in the know, it's a prequel to superman on the syfy channel, set in his grandfather's time. really high production values; promising so far. kinda made for millennials with the young main actors, but the cast is more diverse than just a bunch of dumb kids. and growth has to start somewhere right? the subject matter is more serious than dumb kid angst.

Jerykk wrote on Mar 21, 2018, 02:40:Greece seems like an odd choice. It would presumably take place around the same time as Origins and heavily feature the Romans, just like Origins. Would much rather have an AC set in feudal Japan.

i'd prefer it took place in the heroic age, maybe even during the trojan war. hector, paris, helen, agamemnon, even achilles who i'd like to know. i think it'd be a great setting.

japan would be awesome too though. can't make a game series about assassins and not have ninjas at some point. here again there are plenty of heroes to build around - musashi, kojiro, oda nobunaga. japanese military tradition is as rich or richer than anything in the west imo.

if it's just a graphical update of mw4 mercs i'd be still be happy as a pig in shit. i never gave a shit about the geopolitics of battletech; i always had more fun just running my own mech company with all the headaches the business side entails.

she screwed the wealthy elite out of billions and isn't going to jail for it. i'd call that a half point to the little guy if nothing else. probably the only reason she isn't sharing a cell with bernie madoff.

this is the part that the gun lobby knows and have been trying to bury for decades - the mere presence of guns increases the likelihood of a gun related incident something like 10 fold regardless of training. arming teachers will only do in schools what guns in the general population have done - a handful of justified uses that's completely buried by a mountain of accidents and incidents from people who should've never had access.